San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Pau Gasol had 24 points and nine rebounds, Kobe Bryant had 23 points and seven assists before sitting out the fourth quarter and the Lakers beat the Raptors 112-99 on Sunday night in Los Angeles to improve their league-best record to 14-1. Bryant came 15...
kansascity.com (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Pau Gasol had 24 points and nine rebounds, Kobe Bryant had 23 points and seven assists before sitting out the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 112-99 on Sunday night to improve their league-best record to 14-1.
Miami Herald (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
Pau Gasol had 24 points and nine rebounds, Kobe Bryant had 23 points and seven assists before sitting out the fourth quarter, and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Toronto Raptors 112-99 on Sunday night to improve their league-best record to 14-1.
LAist (Free subscription) | yesterday
LA Lakers defeat Philadelphia 76ers 114-102 . This time there was no last second put back. Kobe Bryant and Pau Gasol made sure of that scoring all of the Lakers points in the last five minutes of the game. Bryant scored 32 points and Gasol got 22 as they staved off a come back from the 76ers. Former Clipper Elton Brand had an awful shooting game scoring only three points. He was so awful...
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
The Sexiest Man Alive is Pau Gasol. Hairy is hot in 2009. These facts is indisputable, just like the sky is blue, and water is wet. (Sports Hernia)
LA Times (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
Lakers looking to get more offense from the forward, who now comes off the bench. Lamar Odom was the Lakers' second option a year ago, averaging almost a dozen shots a game before Pau Gasol was acquired.
Hoops and Other Pop Culture (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Guys in the top 100 in turnovers per game and who get less than .75 assists per turnover: 10 -- Kendrick Perkins -- 2.3 turnovers, .56 assists per turnover 9 -- Marc Gasol -- 2.4/.51 8. -- Dwight Howard -- 2.7/.60 7. Amare -- 2.7/.67 6. Kaman -- 2.7/.68 5. Yao -- 2.8/.45 4. Elton Brand -- 2.8/.53 Top 3 are all wing players 3. Rudy Gay -- 3.1/.58 2. Kevin Durant 3.1/.55 1. Danny Granger -- 3.3/.72...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 10 hours ago
"The great defensive teams are not only the ones that are great on on-ball defense, but it's really those four guys behind the guy guarding the ball that make the difference," Fisher said. "We're still improving in that area."So help needs to come from Kobe Bryant, Vladimir Radmanovic, Pau Gasol and Andrew Bynum.After not giving up more than 100 points in any of their first seven games, the...
Depressed Fan (Free subscription) | 03/12/2008
... That's priority number 1. If you can somehow manage to keep Bynum under wraps I truly believe Gasol can be taken out of any game with physical play. We saw it in the finals last season and we saw it again in the Olympics this Summer when Kobe manhandled him and made him turtle up. So far we have 1: Contain Bynum, 2: Push Gasol around. Now, once you have those two things under control...
3 Shades of Blue (Free subscription) | 02/12/2008
Upside and Motor has the newest Blogger MVP/ROY Rankings up with lots of sparkly videos. O.J. Mayo and Marc Gasol are both in the Top 5 for ROY, but where are they slotted? Head over there to check it out.
Inside the Lakers (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
... minutes. He went to the bench for crunch time as Jackson went with Kobe Bryant, Derek Fisher, Pau Gasol, Trevor Ariza and Lamar Odom for the second straight game.
The Big Lead (Free subscription) | yesterday
... points) is not nearly the same player he was two years ago. That, or he was just afraid to attack Gasol and Bynum last night. New York 82, Cleveland 118: The Cavs have beaten the Knicks by 54 points in the last two meetings, and neither game has been remotely close after the first quarter. LeBron went to the line 10 times in just 28 minutes; the Knicks team went to the line 10 times. Oklahoma...
Times of the Internet (Free subscription) | 01/12/2008
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant combined for 47 points Sunday, carrying the Los Angeles Lakers to a 112-99 pasting of the Toronto Raptors. The Lakers are now an NBA-best 14-1, their strongest start since the 2001-2002 season when they shot out of the gate with a 16-1 mark. Gasol finished with 24 points and Bryant had 23 in LA's seventh straight win. We expect to...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
... and the Lakers rebounded from their first road loss of the season to beat the Sixers. Spain's Pau Gasol had 22 points with 13 boards while Andrew Bynum added 18 points for the visiting Lakers (15-2) who dropped a buzzer-beating 118-117 decision to Indiana on Tuesday night. Andre Miller scored 26 points and Andre Iguodala added 19 for the Sixers, (8-11), losers of four straight. Cleveland...
Slam Dunk Central (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Los Angeles’ high scorer was Bryant with 32 points, 6 rebounds, 4 assists and 2 steals while Pau Gasol added 22 with 13 rebounds, an assist, a steal and 3 blocked shots; Andrew Bynum pitched in, scoring 18 with 3 rebounds, 4 assists and a blocked shot but 5 turnovers. Philadelphia was led by Andre Miller with 26 points, 8 rebounds, 5 assists and 2 steals while Andre Iguodala added 19 with...
